Our lab participated in this year’s annual Systems Neuroscience Symposium of Tübingen. This is a symposium that is sponsored by our institute, the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), and it features invited speakers from all over the world. The topics covered in this symposium are also very broad, spanning from computational neuroscience to human neuroscience, reflecting the breadth of Tübingen neuroscience research.
In this year’s event, Tong gave a fantastic talk on her work on the interactions between foveal and peripheral vision in the context of rapid eye movement generation. She showed very careful experiments demonstrating how active foveal processes, such as microsaccade generation, can have a real impact on peripheral vision. This work convincingly supports and confirms, using causal manipulations, our previous predictions of this effect, here, here, here, and here. She also demonstrated how foveal vision can benefit from predictions about the visual appearance of peripheral eye movement targets. All of these results will hopefully be published very soon.
